Natalie Wadlington — Garden with White Birch
RELEASING AUGUST 25TH AT 12PM EST
2022
6 color lithograph on Arches 270gsm. Deckled, numbered, and signed by the artist.
28h x 22w inches
Edition of 40
Details
Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present a lithograph edition with Natalie Wadlington, titled Garden with White Birch and releasing August 25th, 2022. Wadlington’s practice centers around creating richly-colored paintings that are based in story-telling and figuration. Her characters are wide-eyed with wonderment and fear as they navigate various environments and encounters with both wild and domesticated animals. Wadlington views the interactions presented within her works as metaphors that communicate larger archetypal narratives of love, conflict, and misjudgment, specifically in our relationship to animals.
Garden with White Birch depicts a subject and an animal situated in a garden, the human bending and adjusting to the dog’s company. Through their nuanced interplay, Wadlington depicts our longing for connection. In order to create the lithograph, the artist visited New York where she worked closely with Deb Chaney Editions. Through the guidance that Deb and her team provided, Wadlington had the opportunity to revisit the art of lithography, a process that she is fond of. Says Wadlington: “Drawing on a lithography stone is very rewarding because the mark-making is so smooth and buttery. The oil sticks glide across the surface of the stone so delicately, it is a wonderful way to draw. I explore a smaller, lighter touch in my drawing practice, and the lithograph stone lends itself well to this. It allows me to enter a thoughtful, dreamy space that perhaps the figure in this print embodies.”
